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Re: Bad Choices
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Fri, 26 May 2000 00:42:49 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.geek, Matthew Wilkins writes:
> When they first came up with SCSI, the originators of the standard (no, I
> don't remember who it was) tried to impress upon everyone else that SCSI
That would be Shugart
> should be pronounced "sexy"... it was the geeks (snorting derisively at a too-
> cute acronym, no doubt) that perpetrated the 'scuzzy' pronunciation.
Actually it was spelled SASI and pronounced "sassy". It later became a
non-company specified standard and was renamed SCSI.
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| When they first came up with SCSI, the originators of the standard (no, I don't remember who it was) tried to impress upon everyone else that SCSI should be pronounced "sexy"... it was the geeks (snorting derisively at a too- cute acronym, no doubt) (...) (24 years ago, 26-May-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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